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Hidden poem in Google Charts API Documentation.

Today I was messing around with Google Charts API stuff and ran into something interesting I did not expect by accident.

In their Data formats > Guidelines for granularity section the URLs used to generate the example graphs you can see the data set for the simple encoding value is a string of words.

At first I thought this was some odd religious freak, turns out it the beginning texts from a poem by E.E. Cummings called i think you God for most this amazing.

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lc&chs=200x100&chd=s:ithankYouGodformostthisamazingdayforthel&chxt=x,y&chxl=0:|Apr|May|June|1:||50+Kb

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lc&chs=200x100&chd=s:ithankYouGodformostthisamazingdayfortheleapinggreenlyspiritsoftreesandabluetrued&chxt=x,y&chxl=1:|Apr|May|June|1:||50+Kb

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lc&chs=200x100&chd=s:ithankYouGodformostthisamazingdayfortheleapinggreenlyspiritsoftreesandabluetruedreamofskyandforeverythingwhichisnaturalwhichisinfinitewhichisyeseecumm&chxt=x,y&chxl=1:|Apr|May|June|1:||50+Kb

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lc&chs=200x100&chd=s:ithankYouGodformostthisamazingdayfortheleapinggreenlyspiritsoftreesandabluetruedreamofskyandforeverythingwhichisnaturalwhichisinfinitewhichisyesithankYouGodformostthisamazingdayfortheleapinggreenlyspiritsoftreesandabluetruedreamofskyandforeverythingwhichisnaturalwhichisinfinitewhichisyeseecummings&chxt=x,y&chxl=1:|Apr|May|June|1:||50+Kb

If I was the one making the documentation I thank I would have chosen something along the lines of 16-bit Intel 8088 chip by Charles Bukowski.